What next for BBC's head of Vision Roger Mosey? Not director of TV

Corporation stalwart has not applied for director of television or director of news, but may take a new role devised by Lord Hall

Head of Vision Roger Mosey, who oversaw the BBC's successful coverage of the 2012 Olympics, is not applying to be the new director of television, but may take another senior role. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian

Friday 15 March 2013 11.56 EDT
First published on Friday 15 March 2013 11.56 EDT

Roger Mosey, the BBC's acting head of Vision, has not applied for the senior posts of director of television or director of news and is thought to be ready to take on a new role at the corporation.

Mosey, who was regarded as a potentially strong candidate for either role after overseeing the BBC's successful coverage of the 2012 Olympics, is understood to have spoken to incoming director general Lord Hall over continuing his 33-year career at the BBC with a new post. He declined to comment.

Advertisements for the two key appointments in TV and news were published last month. Mosey was seen as a strong candidate, especially for the director of TV role, in part because of the need for stability at the BBC as its seeks to recover from the traumas of the Savile scandal.

Mosey, a BBC lifer, was made acting BBC Vision director after George Entwistle was named director general in July 2012. He has worked at the corporation since the mid 1980s, and is a former editor of Radio 4's Today programme, where he recruited James Naughtie as a presenter, and controller of Radio 5 Live. He has also run BBC Sport.

The director of television job is technically a new post after Hall decided to scrap with role of director of BBC Vision.

According to sources, other potential candidates for director of TV include BBC1 controller Danny Cohen and Peter Salmon, the head of BBC North.

The director of news position, which became vacant after Hall's decision to move present incumbent Helen Boaden to the job of director of radio, has fewer clear internal candidates.

One candidate for the role, according to BBC sources, is director of global news Peter Horrocks, who has responsibility for the World Service and BBC World News channel.

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